claire told tom (in secret) that he had germs that killed his parents and his baby sister and when max was ill before it was because of tom.
and she said that if he stays with max he will end up killing him.

then claire rang up social services and when max went near tom he started crying and was yelling "dont touch me!"
and now it looks like he's going to be put into care becuase he wont say whats happened, just that he doesn't want to live with max anymore. and poor max is heartbroken.
i love max.

why did max and o.b stop being friends for a while? i think i stopped watching it while that was going on.